PCB vs. BCML, NWFL, SSBK, USCB, CVCY, CIVB, FVCB, BSVN, BWFG, and OBT
Should you be buying PCB Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PCB Bancorp include BayCom (BCML), Norwood Financial (NWFL), Southern States Bancshares (SSBK), USCB Financial (USCB), Central Valley Community Bancorp (CVCY), Civista Bancshares (CIVB), FVCBankcorp (FVCB), Bank7 (BSVN), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), and Orange County Bancorp (OBT). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
PCB Bancorp (NASDAQ:PCB) and BayCom (NASDAQ:BCML) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
BayCom received 69 more outperform votes than PCB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.36% of users gave BayCom an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave PCB Bancorp an outperform vote.
33.0% of PCB Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of BayCom shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.7% of PCB Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of BayCom shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, PCB Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than BayCom. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for PCB Bancorp and 2 mentions for BayCom. BayCom's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat PCB Bancorp's score of 0.29 indicating that BayCom is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PCB Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than BayCom. PCB Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BayCom, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PCB Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. BayCom pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. PCB Bancorp pays out 34.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BayCom pays out 17.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
PCB Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.10%. Given PCB Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PCB Bancorp is more favorable than BayCom.
BayCom has a net margin of 20.33% compared to PCB Bancorp's net margin of 18.97%. PCB Bancorp's return on equity of 11.25% beat BayCom's return on equity.
PCB Bancorp has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BayCom has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BayCom beats PCB Bancorp on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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